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PREVENTIVE medicine is concerned with the o1 application of knowledge to the prevention of disease. To this end all the sciences have been laid under tribute, but physiology, pathology, bacteriology, and epidemiology to the greatest extent, as these have the more immediate bearing.
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MARTIN, C. Preventive Medicine Since 1869. Nature 104, 210–212 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104210a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104210a0